Wisest Quote by Horace Walpole Download Open image “The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.” — Horace Walpole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wisest
The greatest events that have been spoken of by all the Holy Prophets will come along so naturally as the consequences of certain causes,… — George Q. Cannon Copy Share Image
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Beware of those who would pit the dead prophets against the living prophets, for the living prophets always take precedence. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted… — Lactantius Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event. — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
“Such are the limitations of the human mind, and so thoroughly engrossing are the cares of common life, that only the few among men… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“The prophets’ task is to tell their own people what God intends to do with them, not to think about what people in hundreds… — John E. Goldingay Copy Share Image
René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are shrill. But ... the wisest voice of all of them may… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest,… — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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